steward
steward is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
- noun. A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
- noun. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
- noun. In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- noun. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- transitive verb. To manage as a steward.
- noun. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
- noun. a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
- noun. someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
- noun. an attendant on an airplane
- noun. the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
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Common word forms
stewards, stewarded, stewardly, stewarding
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